SF News Market Street Cinema To Become Yet Another Condo Building Historic, seedy and possibly haunted Market Street Cinema at 1077 Market Street has joined the march to oblivion, as its owners have agreed to sell to a developer who will raze the 101-year-old
SF News Just Who Is 'Middle Class' In S.F.? New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows just how much San Francisco's middle class has faded amidst a growing population of high-income earners. As reported by the SF Examiner, the middle
SF News S.F. Rents Are Up 10% From Last Year San Francisco residents have long bemoaned the rising cost of rentals, and now there's word that the increase may be worse than you thought: in the past year alone, rents have risen a
SF News Jane Kim Steps In To Help Mid-Market Tenants Facing Eviction Following on yesterday's breaking news about the 100+ people getting evicted from two buildings on Market between 6th and 7th, Supervisor Jane Kim is hoping to get the word out to tenants that
SF News Hayes Valley Farm Tree-Sitting Occupiers Arrested In Raid .@sfpd trying to remove tree sitter from Hayes Valley Farm. I'm told man is a veteran. @ktvu twitter.com/katieutehs/sta — Katie Utehs (@katieutehs) June 13, 2013 Police pinched protesters involved in the
Arts & Entertainment This Mission Creek Houseboat Will Make You Cry The New York Times is good at reminding us about everything we're not. We're not especially fashion conscious by comparison, we're not preoccupied by Ivy League admissions (thank god), and we're certainly not
Arts & Entertainment Why Is Mission Bay So Ugly? You know that piece of etiquette we mentioned last week? The one that said not to put down other neighborhoods? Let's press pause on that real quick. Because we have a yellow-stucco bone
SF News Should The Mission Have More High-Rises? Everyone knows that the city is in the midst of a major housing crunch. It's nigh impossible to find a place if you're looking, people are crazy, and rents are way too damn
SF News Map: Average Rent For 1BR In San Francisco By Neighborhood Were you having a good week? Too bad. We're here to shed some light on the housing situation in San Francisco. And it's brutal. For us, anyway. You too, we can only assume.
Arts & Entertainment Occupy Bernal To Stop House Auction Tomorrow At City Hall On Friday, June 1, Occupy Bernal (the tiny Occupy group that, despite its size, somehow gets shit done) plans to stop the auction of Alberto Del Rio's house by making noise to drown
Arts & Entertainment Parking Place Wanted For This Totally Rad Tiny House The fine folks over at Curbed bring our attention to this adorable Craigslist ad seeking a driveway (preferably in the city's elite Mission District) to park this equally adorable house from Tumbleweed, the
SF News Tenderloin Fire Injures Twenty Residents Update: The Examiner is reporting that the fire has been deemed suspicious. Authorities are saying that a trash compacter on the first floor of the building had exploded, enabling fire and smoke to
SF News Housing Group Occupies Mission T-Mobile Building A smattering of folks partially responsible for Mission gentrification made an attempt to chip away at its glossy veneer on Monday. Last night at around 5 p.m., according to Mission Local, a
SF News Budget and Finance Committee Kills Condo Lottery Bypass Fee In an effort to the eradicate the stench of plebeian home ownership, Newsom's had some sort of inane condo lottery bypass fee in his budget, one that would've charged potential homeowners $4,000
SF News Obama to End Homelessness Via Project Homeless Connect? Today, President Obama announced the launch of Opening Doors, which will, ideally, help prevent homelessness by using a San Francisco-based model. Not so simply put, Opening Doors is "a more targeted approach by
misc Portland and Seattle = The New SF Suburbs? Picture this: You've hit like thirty and you've reached that point in your boring, staid bourgeois existence when it's time to settle down, poop out the 2.5, and buy the home of
Arts & Entertainment The Second Annual Dream House Raffle We got the pretty flyer in the mail yesterday for the second annual Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dream House Raffle, and Curbed and Socket Site already have the scoop. This year's
misc "Let's All Go Condo, Shall We?", Says Gavin The SF Examiner is reporting that Mayor Newsom has thrown about the stunningly original idea of ditching the city's condo lottery and just letting anyone who wants to go condo, GO CONDO! Currently,
misc "All You Need is a Crane" This photo on Curbed seriously made our afternoon. Apparently, a long-time Curbed lurker discovered this rooftop streamliner while doing a building inspection for a housing project in the Tenderloin. Blogger 40Goingon28 confirms it's
SF News Glen Park Getting Hipper, Congestion Improvements in the Works Glen Park, which we have always thought was adorable and near [Update] where SFist Deborah resides, has been experiencing quite a growth spurt recently. New restaurants and businesses have been steadily opening up,
SF News Help for Renters Arrives While looking at this tasty bit of insanity over at Curbed, we came across this bit of good news for renters in need. It seems, according to , that the U.S. Department of
SF News CitiApartments, Crappier Than Ever Before? Did you really think the sinking economy would sharpen the tacks over at CitiAparements? No. No, it has not. Matt Baume over at Curbed tells the harrowing tale of supposed squalor at one
SF News Historic Tenderloin YMCA Closes Today Sad news. The Tenderloin Y will officially shut its doors today, just short of its 100-year anniversary. "The eight-story, 150,000-square-foot building at the corner of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue," which
SF News Quote du Jour: Concierge Out / Key Card In It seems real estate construction types are finally -- finally! -- realizing in 2009 that no one can afford their mindnumbingly thoughtless, albeit impressive and mildly erotic, InfinityBeaconOneRinconBLŪ luxury towers. San Francisco Business
SF News Cheapest SF Micro-Condo Ever? Ready to throw down money for a place in San Francisco to (finally!) call home? Well, for mere pennies (i.e., $189,000) you can own this downtown micro-condo. This hypercozy 441 square
